Shiye-10Pages/dsh-whale-meter

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DeepSeek raised prices on 2026-08-17: v4-flash cache-miss input went ¥1 → ¥3, output ¥2 → ¥9 (peak tier). Which raises the only question anyone actually has: how much more is my agent costing me now?

Whale Meter prices the same usage under both the old and new tables side by side, shows what the cache is saving you, which model is burning money — and renders a bill card pretty enough to post.

Install in 30 seconds

dsh plugin --profile <your-profile> add dsh-whale-meter

Restart dsh web — a 🐳 spend chip appears in the session header. Click it for the full bill.

From source: dsh plugin --profile <your-profile> add github:Shiye-10Pages/dsh-whale-meter (pnpm will ask you to allow the build once; pin a commit for safety).

What it shows

• Today / yesterday / month / all-time spend, estimated from official DeepSeek rates (¥ or $)
• 📈 Price-change comparison: the same usage under both tables, and the delta, right on the panel. Before 08-17 it previews ("today would cost X at the new rates"), after it looks back ("X at the old rates")
• ⚡ Peak/off-peak tiers: from 08-17, off-peak is half of peak. Each request is priced by its own timestamp; the chip shows ⚡½ off-peak — note this is not cheaper than before the hike; off-peak still costs more than the old flat rate
• Correct across the price change: rates are organized by effective era, so 08-16 usage bills at old rates and 08-17 at new ones — history is never repriced with one blunt table
• Cache ledger: hit rate + "saved by cache ¥X" — the cache is worth more after the hike, since the hit/miss gap widened too
• Per-model / per-session bills — failed retries are billed too, so they are counted too
• 14-day trend, account balance (with API key), and a daily budget line
• 🐳 Bill share card: one click renders a deep-sea style PNG — monthly spend, a fun equivalent ("≈ 2.3 bottles of iced tea"), cache savings — save or copy and post it

Configuration (optional)

Works with zero config. To tweak, override in your profile's cordis.patch.yml:

- update:
    - id: whale-meter
      config:
        currency: USD        # or CNY (default)
        budgetDaily: 1
        apiKey: sk-...       # balance lookup only; falls back to DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
        prices:
          my-model: { hit: 0.5, miss: 4, out: 12 }   # per million tokens

How it works & privacy

• Consumes usage records from dsh session logs (assistant/chunk usage authoritative, assistant/message.usage fallback, deduplicated per the official accounting rules), appended to ~/.dsh/whale-meter/usage-YYYY-MM.jsonl
• Raw tokens only, never baked-in prices — pricing table updates retroactively reprice your history
• Everything stays on your machine. No telemetry. The only outbound request is the optional balance lookup against DeepSeek's official endpoint
• A meter must never sink the ship: the collector is fully defensive and degrades silently instead of disturbing your agent

FAQ

Will the numbers match my platform bill exactly? They're estimates from official rates per-request; usually very close. The platform bill is authoritative. Pricing lives in one file (src/pricing.data.ts, versioned 2026-08-14) — PRs welcome when rates change.

Third-party models? Tokens are always counted; unknown models are marked unpriced instead of guessing — add your own rates via prices.

TUI / headless? Collection is host-side; curl http://127.0.0.1:3080/whale-meter/api/summary works anywhere. A standalone TUI view is on the roadmap.

Roadmap

Backfill of pre-install sessions · monthly report export · off-peak scheduling hints · built-in rates for more providers · TUI view

Disclaimer

Community plugin, not affiliated with DeepSeek. dsh is a developer preview; when upstream breaks things, this plugin follows up fast (file an issue to nudge).

If it helps, a ⭐ means a lot to an indie dev shipping at 2am.

License

MIT © 2026 shiye (十页)